Myra Now Myron!!!
March 2, 2009 kclovinlife
Where do I start?? I got through all but 20 pages up till last night and I could not believe what happened. The end of the book ruined it for me. All powerful Myra destroyed Rusty’s manhood. When I began reading chapter 29 I was thinking ahead as to what could possibly happen and rape came to my mind, but I did not think that it would really happen. I am almost never right in my predictions so when I got to the point of Myra putting Rusty on his knees and taking his will away from him I wanted to cry for Rusty. What a sick human being. Thinking about the fact that as Myron was victimized so many times by men and probably raped too, I can understand Myra’s need to destroy Rusty. In the end what did she really destroy?
She wanted the power and got it. “The sense of power was overwhelming….I felt like I could do anything” (ch. 29) After her conquer with Rusty she is beginning to think of herself as a God. “Having raped his manhood, I shall now seduce his girl. Beyond that, ambition stops and godhood begins” (ch. 31). Myra is completely off her rocker. I can not stand her by this point in the book. Rusty and Mary Ann break up and Rusty is now taking out his pain on Letitia. What a weirdo she is. Everybody has their own kinks that they enjoy behind closed doors, but she is off the scale.
Up untill the last chapter Myra is constantly gravaling with male and female roles and relations and who has the power. I could go on with pages where this is evident, but I need to get to the end of this book.
The End…..What the FUCK!!! I can not believe that Vidal ended this book like this. Are you serious that Myra now Myron is living happily ever after with his love Mary Ann and he comes upon this notebook and “…can hardly believe that I was ever the person who wrote those demented pages” (ch 42). People do not just change from one extreme to the next with out some life long therapy and even then I can not see how Myra is the same person who wrote the last chapter. It was like a dream you get through all of the unbelievable stuff and then in pops your real voice and none of the craziness ever happened it was just a dream.
This book was crazy. I can’t even say what I feel about it at this point. There is so much that needs to be discussed.
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1. ju1522&hellip | March 2, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I agree with you 100% with the ending. I want to know how in the hell Myron/Myra ended up with a happy ending after everything she did. Chapter 29 was the toughest chapter to read just because of what was going on. I know Myra was Rusty’s teacher, but there comes a time when he’s got to say “You’re crazy” and get the hell out of there. What a screwed up story with, like you say, a lot to talk about.